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LITERARY REVIEW. The .ENEIS of VIRGIL. Translated liy CtIARLESSYDOIONS, D.D. of Jesus College, Oxford, Cm. Velle videmilr, et in niediis conatibusswgre SUCCiditntiS ; NON LINGUA VALET. It Hyrum', St. Paul's Cbarch-yard ; and J. 'PORTER, Pall- Mail. On the first appearance of this new translation of the great Roman Epic, we were induced to cad it, as well by our love of classic poetry, as by our respect for the name of the Anthor Our perusal of the work exacted tour immediate appro bation 5 and we could not hesitate to announce and to recommend it to the public. For the purpose of communicating our own conviction of its merits, in the fairest, and at the same time in the.most impressive manner to our Readers,we adopted the obvious plan of comparing paragraphs from its pages with their correspondents in the only translation of the "Eneis which can now be regarded as living, the translation, we mean, by DRYDEN : and, in the execution of our scheme, we determined to omit all the weaker or more faulty parts of the eider Bard, and to select his most brilliant passages aloue,when we confronted his page with that of our contemporary. This design of ours is now completed ; and following DRYDEN through all those books which were his own especial favourites, and which certainly dis cover the happiest efforts of his genius, we have opposed him in his fullest power to his antago nist ; and we doubt not that our Readers have concurred with us in assigning the palm to the latter. Here, then, we might properly take our leave of the subject, but we are induced to linger on it for a few additional minutes, by the Preface and the Notes, which begin and terminate this splendid volume of our contemporary, and which we conceive to be entitled to tie attention, in an equal degree, of the scholar and the general reader. In the Preface, besides an able ‘ defence of rhymed against the advocates of unrhymed verse, will he found some curious remarks on the subject of English rhythm, in its reference to our Epic numbers; and in the Notes are many observations which strike us with their novelty, and are honourable alike to the erudition and the taste of their Author. In confirmation of our judgment in these instances, we are tempted to make extracts both from the Preface and the Notes : but from the former we cannot detach a passage %vial) we can accommodate to our limits, anal from the latter we feel ourselves at a loss to select. We are induced, however, to offer the following annotation to our Readers, as it sup plies, with consiaetable ingenuity, that single bemistic in-the rEneis, in which the sense has been lett imperfect by its great Anthor. 389—" Here Fame reports to startle our !Yelief," &c. Timis episode, of the meeting of lENEAS with HELENUS U11(1 ANDROMACHE, is interesting and pleasing in a very high degree. It was not wholly Li creation of our Poet's ; for DioNvszus of Oa licaroassus (1. 51) relates that 2-ENEAS, having arrived at Buthiotus, a port of Epirus,went, with a select part of his forces, two days' journey from the coast, fur the purpose of consulting the Oracle of Dodona ; and that be there filund Ha- Lr-NUS and his Trojans. In this account DIONY- Slos followed, no doubt, some of the earlier writers of Greece ; and VARRO, as be is cited by SEavios, reports nearly the same circumstaoces• With the materials, thus ready to his hand, VittGit. constructed the beautiful episode now be fore us, by which the best affections of the human heart are very powerfully engaged and delighted. The circumstance of tENEAS finding ANDROMACHE offering at the cenotaph of HECTOR, is most hap pily conceived ; and what passes at the nnex pected interview is told so forcibly, and with so much of the truth of nature, as most strongly to excite the sympathies of our hearts. When AN DROMACHE refers to the loss of CREUSA on the fatal night of Troy's destruction, it has been 'asked how she could become acquainted with this fact in a state of captivity, as she was, and dis tantly sundered, till the present moment, from lENEAS., and the Trojans who had escaped with him ? To us there seems to be no difficulty in me case. The loss of CREUSA, the (laughter of Patasr, and the wife of 11 4 :SEAS, must have been known to several of the Greeks ; and by some of then) it would naturally be communicated to their Trojan captives ; if, indeed, these were not more immediately informed of it. We must. recollect that the hero traversed the city with the hope of recovering her ; that he even saw the captives in time portico of JuNo's Temple ; that he made the streets repeatedly re-echo with her name. Is it possible, then, or, at least, probable, that her loss should be unktiown to all the Greeks; to all the Trojans, yet surviving in the town ; or to a Princess so nearly connected with her as ANDRO MACHE, who, when the tumult of her own dis tress had subsided, would kqmiire, with natural solicitude, about the fate of every member of that Royal Family to which she belonged ? The he tnistic Queue tibi jam Troia----, in which the sense as well as the verse is imperfect, has exer cised the ingenuity of more than one to supply it; and the attempts, as is well known, have most egregioosly failed. Many years ago, as this page of the ./Eneis was under our eye, it occurred to us, in our idleness, that the verse, with per fect reference to the place which it occ!ipies, might be thus made out : Qum tibi, jam Troia iuccusa, dens obtulet orbum : and when we reflect on it, even at this distance of time, we cannot discover any objection to-which the proposed supplement is fairly exposed. The expression of—dens ad /mat oris, occurs in the line next but mi, before it ; and, in the wanton indulgence of conjecture, we might almost suppose that VIRGIL had written time verse as it is here supplied ; and then, erasing that portion of it which too nearly resembled what so closely preceded, had left it thus de fective ; and, in the interest of his subsequent progress, had eventually forgotten it. his nugis da vegium, lector. We received yesterday the Paris Papers of Sun day last, and this morning those of Monday. The Moniteur of Sunday presents a remarkable confir mation of what we have stated respecting the Conspiracy, it containing a Royal Ordonnance, dismissing the Baron de VITAOLLES from the Privy Council, and his office of a Minister of State. No cause is assigned for this measure in the Ordonnance, nor is any explanation given with regard to it in the Journals of Monday, but this very silence proves that the dismission can only have originated in one cause, namely, what we have already mentioned with respect to the Conspiracy.—The following are extracts : PARIS, JULY 26. ROYAL ORDONNANCE. " Louts, &c. " The Baron de Vitrolles will cease to form part of our Privy Council, or to continue on the list of our Ministers of State. (Signed) " LOUIS. " Dated July 24." (Counter-Signed) " RICIIELIEIJ• The King transacted business yesterday successively With tL Mir;isters of rinanco, of General Police, and the Count de P:adel, Director of the Administration of the Household. The Duke de Feltre had the honour of paying his respects yesterday to his Majesty, to Madame, and to the Princes. , The departure of the Court for Rambouillet is fixed for to morrow. The King returns to St. Clot(' on Wednesday, and to Paris on Saturday. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland are gone to Spa, from whence they proceed to Aix-la-Chapelle, and then. to Paris. The Earl of Harrowby and the Prince Esterhazy are ex pected immediately. Lord Co.:hrane and the Duchess of Meiningen arrived at Calais en Tuesday last; the former proceeds to Paris, but remains some days at Boulogne. FIVE PER CENTS. Saturday 77 f. 60 c. Dr.FERRED STOCK of the 2241 larch, 18 7, B7 f. 75 c. :22d Sept. 1817, 85 f. 75e. 9.2(l,Nlarch, 1818, 63 f. Doe. MADRID, JULY 14.—1 n consequence of a confirmation of the prevalence of plague at Tangier, where at the end of June it carried off eight persons daily, the most rigorous pre cautions have been adopted to prevent its introduction into Spain. BnEsLAtr, JULY EL—There is reason to believe, that the Russian negociations at Constantinople will be successfully terminated. The Emperor of Russia is expected, after leaving Aix-la- Chapelle, to visit Vienna, and then to return by Warsaw to Petersburgh. AUGSBURGII, JULY 18.—The Emperor and Empress of Austria arc expected in the course of a month at Munich. l'ETEnsnunou, JUNE :-:o.—General Wittgenstein has set out to take the command of the troops lately under the orders of General Bennigsen. General the Count Osten-Saelien is appointed Genera! in Chief of the first Corps d'Arrn&, in the room of the late Field-Marshal the Prince Barclay de Tully. [RECEIVED THIS MORNING.] " PARIS, JULY 27.---The King received yester day, at St. Cloud, the Foreign Ministers, Mini sters of State, Military Officers, &c. " A fire broke out in one of the Kitchens of the Chateau at St. Cloud, at nine o'clock on Saturday evening. It arose from the bad con struction of one of the ovens. By the aid of the firemen, however, it was got under in a very short time, with but little damage. A fire broke out about the same time in the ancient Church of Saint Magloire, serving as an orangery to the Chamber of Peers. The flames were, however, soon got under by the activity of the firemen, with the loss only of some of the woodwork and flooring. " Lieutenant-Generals the Count Molitor, and the Count Lanusse, and Marechaux de Camp the Count de Vergennes, and the Count de Cheffon taine, have been appointed by the King to in spect the troops stationed in the 16th military division during the year 1818. " Forty houses were destroyed by fire on the 14th instant, at Molaus, in the arrondissement of Lnire. " The 22d inst. a wolf - was killed in the village of Cailleau, near Saint Loubes, but not before it had dangerously wounded six persons. A girl . named Boulard, in the Commune of Marsanne (Drome), who had been bitten by a mad wolf, was taken ill on the 2d inst., the Gist day after the accident, with symptoms of Hydrophobia, and died in three days. " Madame V--, of Caen, declared by the Tribunal of that city to be guilty of adultery, has been .sentenced to two years' imprisonment. " HANOVER, JULY 15.—A Rescript has been received here, addressed by the Prince Regent to the Duke of Cambridge, in which the Prince Regent declares himself Colonel-in-Chief of the Hanoverian Guards, Infantry, and Cavalry, and appoints the Doke of Cambridge Colonel-en- Second. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are ex pected here about the middle of August. " VIENNA, JULY 15.--One of the first mer chants of Presburg has failed for 3,000,000 cur- rency. " STOCKHOLM, JULY 10.—The departure of the King for Norway is fixed for the 26th inst. " During the last fortnight there has been no rain here, and the heat has been almost insup portable." From the latest intelligence that we hare re ceived respecting the contest between Spain and her Colonies, and from quarters on which we can rely, we are induced to believe that the struggle will be protracted to a much greater length than seems to be generally supposed, but that ultimately the Insurgents must be triumphant. Indeed, front the nature of things, the progress of principles, and the course of events, it is hardly possible that there should he a different result. It, therefore, becomes the Government of Spain to reflect on the probable consequences of a vain attempt to retain a Sovereignty, which, if it could be re covered, could only be possessed for a few years, and then he irretrievably thrown off It seems, therefore, to be the true policy of Old Spain to enter into an amicable newt ciation, and to secure to herself the commerce of those vast tracks of country, the population of Which is increasing every day by births and eoigrations, and, perhaps, the comrnerclid 3(1"11 ; tage may w e ll a t one f or th e l oss o f a prec ari° b l e and expensive domination, which at last mu st inevitably l os t i n t h e p rogress o f society, 811(1( ' those political principles which are universally in culcated, anit too eagerly adopted by the • Inuiti tulle. • to The combinations at Manchester, &c. b e g ° wear a serious aspect, as may well be expected when a vast number of persons are out of eniP l°Y ; ment, and exposed to all the vices that idl el ' es t engenders. If they are not so riotous at Pr ese h l e as to excite alarm, it is highly probable ib' it mischief is brewing, and with so many sed iiio v Agitators as are unhappily spread all °ver the country, (one of the dreadful effects °f t oo French Revolution) may be expected to boo t 5° to into action, . unless due measur es are adopt st avert the evil. We are assured, howev er ' " to Government have adopted every possible a le° protect the country. The Dublin Evening Post has given suc h it re' t Car' presentation of the int e rview between th e be poration of Dublin and Mr. P E EL as m i g ht A an expected from a Paper devoted to Jacobinisru it POPERY. That Paper of the 25th inst., soY s ' o il Mr. reCeptiota) was every thing but gra- ~ Mr. PEEL entered in silence—made a COldld formal bow—heard the a dd ress read in silence , ea read his answer with some agitation ~/ with the same freezing formality, and retire d ', ve We have no hesitation in saying that tve 119 this to be a false representation of wha t rea l ly passed. It is, indeed, too improbable 61 0 i to gain a momenta' y credit. The Corporsti°°e, Dublin, much to their honour, paid a rited tribute to a Gentleman who ess ellt :%,, served the Country. Their address wa s Ju proper, and dignified. Mr. P EE L's ahsW e ' , 0 Th °6 respectful, manly, courteous, and noble• psi who know his character and his manner s 11 . 1 o r give him credit for a very di ' ff'erent heb all oo t from that which is so illiberally imputed t ° yle in the Jacobin Print. alluded to. It is Pr °111 : 0 0 that Mr. PEEL felt the c o mpliment whi ch 0 paid to him by so respectable a b°ml sig' the Corporation of the Capital of the o af' ter Island, and received it with an esfr` f or t sion of manly gratitude and esteem, c . aot if of his own character, an d o f t h e dignifie d o f -ft ° who addressed him. But th e cloven po pe Faction appears in what is said in the same se to after Mr. PEEL'S Answer, which it profesio, receive with " unfeigned satisfaction ! 5 6 ( "it is manifest that it is a Reply—not t " a As poor People—but an Address to the I•bit i°° ' , 't• such the Nation ‘vill receive and apprecia t ' 1 0r Po' This is an involuntary compliment to th e - ration and to Mr. PEEL, for the abuse O f s v d t lifr Paper is a proof that the object of it is c ' e r . ` ferent front the source, and to Mr. 11°1"fer' shoving that his mind was too enlarged t° look national interests in personal court' s / . pet' alr have no doubt that the Corporation and ,--- t hat were highly gratified with each o ther, ro e e their harmony will not be disturbed hY Jetir °l o !, liguant.misrepresentations of a factiou s • t nP I" The CITY Jacontrcs exult in their t ri ro t' having secured for Mr. Watalimati a Seat i tot 50 liament and an Alderman's Gown.—W e gre n e rsO 0 much dissatisfied at the elevation of this r iit ics l to a Seat in Parliament as some of our P ° ) .,,ia" hie competitors seem to be, on account ot and a retail trader. This is a trading conotrY bl b° every class of industrious persons w•'° State,anti for the State have an interest in the eooo' are virtually included in the genera l rePr 0 to o tion. Whether a man is a Merchant or hel3tri. a AL IA/ he may be considered as implicated in t efi cf , interests of the country, and, if he a cts b Y ag a r it matters little whether he deals by w h° lesa src a retail. The retail body, all over t he a rllp see numerous beyond calculation, and Rep , reason why they should not have a •des, tative as well as other classes• no ale fj , person accustomed to the r etail °` likely to be better informed tha n 111("31 filw re 1 firrlls' to t' men who succeed to great comme ia o r f do teoi , „Ot 9 are too proud, too luxurious, too to the P' - ignorant, to do more than receive . , business themselves, o an d therefor e cle o P y en t lell a° subordinate Agents. Many subjects n lsi e; legislative inquiry which a pract ical agi ti ent 5110 bi' qualified to illustrate, and P ar ' 110 0 , consist of the collective hoa r "' dae ld e tG lity of the country. We ha%, e 311 0 s har e mach to shew that we do not Siret ;qt g r. l ie proud but vulgar prejudice aga•n• , f o r h is WO ° MAN, merely as a " ta u i r oner , a t ( 10 g e ° ' rienee in that respect will aft )1( 11° 11 o'o if t vie tages over most of the Membe rs on o AO s d Commons. His political sen tiol ent t ioll ; fo r t o ate the main objects of caasiderg the 7, ' de . plus In the mischievous design q Of HA NJ BURG PAVERS. ST. PETERSEURGEI, JULY 7.—The new Loan is already published, and the conditions are con tained in ten articles. Subscriptions are received, beginning with the first of this month to the 31st of December. Both Russians and foreigners may take a part in it. The Imperial Ukase, giving permission to publish it, is dated the 16th of last month, and runs as follows : " The Loan which was opened by the Committee of the Sinking Fund, in consequence of the Ordinance of March 16, 1817, has brought in considerable sums, which have been employed for the purpose of diminishing the mass of assignats in circulation. The Minister of Finance has laid before us a Projet for renewing the subscription; upon conditions which are suited to present circumstances. The sums whiCh may be received from this new Loan shall be applied in like mannt r to diminish the mass of assignats circulation, in conjunc tion with the thirty millions which the Treasury furnishes for the same purpose from the revenues of the Crown. As we have approved of this plan, we command the Directing Senate to provide for the publication of it. " Zarskojeselo, June 16. (Signed/ ALEXANDER." HAmßutton, JULY 23 —We have received the following letter from Algiers : " Antlers, June 15. " In the eastern provinces of this country, at Bona, Con stantina, &c., the plague has greatly abated, and indeed al most wholly ceased ; but it spreads towards the west, to Oran, Masiara, and Tremeem. In the first of these towns, the population of which is hardly 10,000, the daily mortality amounted to 150 or 200 persons; here 30 or 40 die daily of this dreadful contagion. At Algiers they are pretty well sa tisfied with the Dey, and the tranquillity which now prevails is doubly welcome after so many distresses. Nothing is now complained of but time dearness of the times." • HANOVER, JULY 20.—In' consequence of some disturbances ‘which have arien at Gottingen, be tween the Students ard the Members of sonic Guilds, among others that of the butchers, and in which, as we learn, the house of a butcher was much damaged, and the windows of another bro ken to pieces, Counsellor Valcke has been sent from this city to Gottingen, as Commissioner, to inquire into and wit an end to these disorders.— A detachment of 50 hussars has also been sent thither. CorENnAonN, JULY 18 —On the 15th we had the pleasure to see a fine new frigate launched; she received the name of the Diana. It is sup posed she, will be one of our best sailers, being built with all the new improvements introduced into naval architecture by the ingenuity of the Americans. Font Jewish houses have lately failed here, but only two of them are considerable ; one is said to have a deficit of halt a million of Mares Bank. Jut.v 17 —The meeting of several (13) mediatized Princes, &c. which was attempted last year, but was not accomplished, takes place this month at Wilhelmsbad, near llanau. Count Waldeck is at the head of these Princes. FRANKFORT, JULY 18.—It is said that his Ma jesty the Emperor (44 Austria will arrive here on the 17th of next month, on his•way to Aix-la- Chapelle. It is also still affirmed, that the Allied Sovereigns will stop some days in this city. It seems uncertain whether the Military Committee will have finished its labours by that time, but it is certain, at least, that they are proceeding with onparalleled activity. On the part of Bavaria, there are now here, for the purpoSes of this Com mittee, no less than five Si ail Officets, all men Of the most extensive knowledge in military affairs. The King of Bavaria will leave Baden on the 23d instant, to go to the Rhenish Provinces, and return thither on the Ist of August.—(l./amburgh Papers, July 24.) NEXT TUESDAY LO't TE DIL \VS.—TWO of f, .P,0,000 'Two of 4.2,000, 2,000 SOVEREIGNS, CLARET, PORT, MADEIRA, GOLD.—ONLY 6,00 fl TICKETS. THEATRICAL- REGISTER. Perlowed Lust Night. MEXTRU ROYAL, HAYMARKET.—The Traelkrs Benighted : Robert, Mr. Terry; Marguerite, Nil's. Ciihbs. After which, X. Y. Z. 'lO which wa, added, The Seep Walker. RoYAL, ENcoAsti OrERA, STRAND.—The Dnenna : Don Carlos, Mr. Peal - wan; Clara, Miss Carew, Alter which, La Perouse. *,,, For " POLITICAL SOCIETY," see the First Page. MAILS AnnivEn-1 Dublin, 1 Waterford, 1 France. DUE-1 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Guttenburgb. STOCKS F.LVE: o'ermcK. Imperial 3 per Cent. Ann. 7Gi India Bowls.-- 923.94 i. pr. Excla. Bills, 2d... 19.4. 21s. pr. I)itto,23 r d.. 19s. 21s. pr. Ovininni • • • • • •iia,kdis• Cons. for August. 77til PRICE 0 THIS PAY AT 1- 3 per Cent. Red. • . 3 per Cent. Cuns. 7744 34 per Gent 4 per Cents 5 per Cent. N. Ann. ‘osli 10E; Bank L. Ann. 201 9-Iti 1 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO .MORROW. Morning, 4 minutes after 1. Evening, 29 minutes after I. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERZ FA I.SUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1818.